Road to EBC

China started building a controversial 67-mile "paved highway fenced with undulating guardrails" to Mount Qomolangma, known in the west as Mount Everest, to help facilitate next year's Olympic Games torch relay./// A digger belches smoke as it clears the road in front of Rongbuk Monastery on the road to Everest Base Camp.
Tibet, China
July, 2007